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troughsnounpl. of trough a long hollow cylinder for carrying a substance (as a liquid or gas)all of the wiring for the converted residential loft is concealed in a vertical trough channels, conduits, ducts, leaders, lines, penstocks, pipes, tubes drainpipes, drains, funnels, hydrants, mains, smokestacks, spouts, standpipes, stovepipes, tiles, waste pipes, waterspoutspipages(or pipeages), pipelines, pipings a long narrow channel dug in the earthI slid and fell into the trough by the side of the road, scraping my leg dikes, ditches, fosses, gutters, sheughs(chiefly Scottish), trenches acequias(Southwest), culverts, drains, draws, gullies(also gulleys), ravinesdrills, furrowsha-has, moats, stanks(British dialect), sunk fenceskennels a pipe or channel for carrying off water from a roofthe troughs on the eaves of the house were clogged with leaves drainpipes, eaves troughs, gutters, rainspouts, spouts, waterspouts drains, flumes, sluicesconduits, ductsaqueducts |